View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... John K. Hillers

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... John K. HillersView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. In the foreground tracks from Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party mark the sand. Members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, lead a group of camels down a far dune. In the distance before them is a salt flat (sabkha) and a

between the houses

View of a man leading three camels across Al Maqta

The peregrine faces directly forward

a boy walks towards the ruin

In the central foreground a peregrine falcon

In the far right distance a second line of parallel dunes stretches into the horizon

Portrait of a saker (hurr) falcon with its prey

The boy is likely Raikan

on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf between Dubai Emirate and Bahrain Island

Mythical figures on the ends of roof gables at the Summer Palace in Beijing

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin